Parts of speech are the categories words belong to depending on their syntactic functions. In the English language, there are eight main parts of speech:
nouns - banquet, car, dog, man...
pronouns - I, you, he, they...
adjectives - beautiful, nice, strange...
verbs - to go, to eat, to sit...
adverbs - up, down, right, quickly...
prepositions - on, above, between, until...
conjunctions - and, but, because...
interjections - oh! ouch! dear me!...
Some people consider determiners (<em>a/an, the, my, that</em>, etc.) to be a separate part of speech, while others consider them to be a type of adjectives.
The narrator wants to see the "Evil Eye" once more before he kills the old man, but each night for the first week the old man is asleep when he sneaks into his room. Hope this helps! =)
